The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
Saline County.

Saline County.
"A meeting is in good progress as
Good Hope church.
Some corn has been sold at 81. 50
per barrel to feeders at Gillian.
Rev. Phillips is holding pro-
tracted meeting at Grand Pass church.
Quartet meeting at the Nj. Z.
church, Malta Bend, Sunday, Aug.
%.
John Eynou's coal mine, near
Miami. is being worked almost full
capacity.
Rev. Geo. NOrvell has been con-
Quoting meeting Shackleford the
past week.
John Aud, of Gillian, has left
for Kansas City where has located
permanently.
Born to and Mrs. l.. I'll. Alexan1
der, Of Marshall, on Sunday morning.
Aug. 21st, fine girl.
Albert HeDzler, former Gillian
boy now residing in Kansas, made
flying visit here last week.
The Miami public school build
lug has been much improved lately,
both externally and internally.
DIR. Sprague and wife, of Spring
field, Mo-, is at Malta Bend visiting
their daughter Mrs. Joe Blosser.
Local option and the price of corn
are receiving considerable attention as
topics of conversation about Gillian.
Miss Lille Alexander, of Gillian
who has been spending the summer in
California, Mo-, returned home last
week.
The Baptist church at Shackle-
ford has been holding protracted
meeting the past two weeks. Con-
verts are not very numerous.
The citizens of Malta Bend had
a meeting Thursday night in regard
to the incorporation of the town, and
decided to have new corporation.
Malta Bend is on boom, inc.
Day started it by selling j. w. Ming,
of Marshall lot on Main street for
$3.50. Ramon says a fine hotel will
be erected thereon.
Jake Davis, son of Judge Davis,
of Marshall, has purchased Mrs. Joe.
Hatcher's place, half a mile of
Fairville. 1t was very cheap-110
rich acres at S34 per acre.
John Kennedy shipped iour
cars of fancy Colorado cattle from
Shackleford , Tuesday, to Chicago.
They averaged ], $40 pounds. W. s.
Newell shipped four cars of hogs.
Morgan has sold his eighty-fve
acre place near Fairville, to Mr.. Ben
Mcclure for s55 per acre, crop and
all. Mr.. Mcclure afterwards sold it,
and the large farm adjoining, known
as the Henry Boyer farm, to Mr..
Geo. Murrell.
Miami grain dealers report more
grain hauled at that point, than for
several years previous. Many thous-
and bushels have been shipped and at
this time there are six warehouses ,
full. The price paid for wheat ranges
from 80 to 50 cents per bushel.
Jos. Blackaby was bound over in
Justice Miller's court, at Marshall,
ON the charge of horse
stealing. He was working on a farm
near Arrow Rock and traded the ami.
NAL which he took from P. j. Davis
to Henry Sparks, getting $40 in cash.
Constable Davis arrested him at Files
berry thirty miles east of Louisiana.
Prosecuting Attorney, A. F. Rec
or spent two days at Miami last
week in examining VIM. Heard, who
killed another negro, Pleas Van
Hook, at Walkers landing three
niles above Frankfort on the Missouri
liver, while both were carrying wood
IN board the steamer Dacotah. Heard
ostled Van Hook, it appears, unin-
as they passed on the
rang plank. The latter then struck
Heard with stick of cord-woOd and
chased him to the bank beating him
nurderously. Reaching q stick on
he bank, Heard seized it and slew
Van Hook at one blow. Heard was
released on the ground of excusable
homicide i'm self-defence.